Michael Dicks

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Michael Dicks is the Managing Director and Head of Research & Investment Strategy at Barclays Wealth. Michael is responsible for running a research team that analyses and forecasts global economic developments, using the output from this analysis to help devise investment strategies – both in the form of top-down asset allocation and bottom-up investment ideas.

Prior to joining Barclays Michael was Chief European Economist at Lehman Brothers, where he spent a decade running a team specialising in quantitative methods, that came top of Institutional Investor’s annual European Fixed Income Research poll for the past three years running in the Economics category. He started his career at the Bank of England, where he spent eight years working on, inter alia, housing markets and their impact on the consumer, as well as being Assistant to the Chief Economist. Michael has both a first degree and an MSc from the London School of Economics in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics.